View From The Front Window April 24, 2016

Check out our posts from the last week at the links below.

Odie's Saturday Post

Goodbye Bro. Joey Hight

Wednesday Night City Reach

BoggsMobile Generator Radiator Project

Schedule Updates

Weekend Woundup and Weview

This is the view our of our front window at Desert Cove. It is basically the same view as last week with one notable exception. Where there used to be the Gospel tent, there is bare ground now.

Tent Revival closed Friday night and we were able to get the tent down after service. Praise God for His help the last three weeks in City Reach Phoenix area. I am so thankful for those that have been touched by God.

We are singing and preaching today at Desert Cove in the church and we are expecting a great time. I hope you have a great Sunday.

Davy

Operation Surprise Deidre

Hey friends, it is Odie. Dad and Mom and all my Arizona friends have been enjoying the last two nights of City Reach in the Phoenix area but I have been gallivanting across the country. I hated to miss but all of this came together last week before plans were made to continue revival.

As you read my post this morning I will be traveling back to Arizona from Missouri. I made this whirlwind trip in order surprise my cousin Deidre, who graduated last night from Ozark Bible Institute in Neosho, Missouri. 

I was super excited to be with Deidre, some family members and lots of friends as she celebrated this tremendous milestone in her life. Next Saturday I will try to post pictures from graduation day. 

Today I will share pictures from my travel day to Missouri on Thursday and from Deidre's surprise. 

Dad and Mom took me to Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix for my early morning flight Thursday. We left the BoggsMobile about 4:40 AM and arrived at the airport about two hours before my flight. Both of my flights were awesome. We even arrived early at my layover at DFW and at my final destination in Joplin. 

I love looking out the window while flying. Here are a few shots from the flight from Phoenix to Dallas Fort Worth. 

I had a quick stop and plane change at DFW airport and all of than went very smoothly. In a little less than an hour after leaving Dallas, we touched down in Joplin, Missouri. 

I was then picked up by my crew from Ohio. It was wonderful to see Mamaw, Papaw, Uncle Steve, Aunt Karen and my cousin Lisa Isaacs! Since they were going to be in Neosho for the graduation, that made it possible for me to easily make the trip myself. I am so glad it worked out. 

After they picked me up from the airport we went to the hotel in Neosho. It was time to put Operation Surprise Deidre into full gear.

Deidre knew her parents and our grandparents were making the trip to graduation. She had no idea that me and Lisa  were going to be there. So below are some screen shots from a video of Deidre coming in our hotel room. 

Lisa hears Deidre about to open the door... 

Deidre enters what she thinks is her room for Thursday and Friday. 

She realizes I am sitting there waiting on her. Deirdre's phone and purse went flying to the floor and then she attacks me. 

After hugs all around, she looks behind her to find cousin Lisa hiding and waiting to be discovered. 

Mission successful! We surprised her! The whole hotel probably heard her scream. Later in the evening I saw a friend in the lobby. He asked me, "Were you the reason I heard Deidre scream?"

Thursday night We had a wonderful dinner with our Boggs clan and the Shoemaker family from Mississippi. 

Then Deidre, Aunt Karen, Lisa and I went to the Deidre's dorm to get her stuff packed and ready to go home. I enjoyed catching up with some friends. It was a great end to an extremely long day. 

My friend Amanda from Livingston, Texas.

Miss Layla Grace Hoover, not even 2 years old and loves selfies. 

My dear "sister" friend Anna Hoover 

Layla pushing Auntie Odie. 

Thanks for reading! I will have more to report next Saturday. 

Odie

Goodbye Bro. Joey Hight

Today is the funeral for the most unique and one of the most influential preachers among the conservative Pentecostal people in the last 40 years. Bro. Joey Hight passed away Sunday morning April 17. He is finally home but his going is a hard blow to his family and the many, many people that loved him.

Bro. Joey made an impact on many thousands of people and had a special way of connecting with young and old alike. His preaching was anointed and powerful, along with being a touch entertaining. There were many who wanted to be Bro. Joey but there was only one Bro. Joey Hight.

Bro. Joey was naturally funny. He could not be anything different and still be genuine. But he was serious about having a move of God and by the time he was finished preaching, most everyone in the church was serious about it too. Bro, Joey put as much strength and passion into preaching as any man I have every known. He was a tremendous help and inspiration.

Camp meetings across the US will never be the same. Youth camps will never be the same. Calvary Pentecostal Tabernacle in West Plains, Missouri will never be the same. Bro. Joey will be missed and leave a big hole, but each of us will be better off for having known him and having sat under his preaching.

There is nothing we can do for Bro. Joey Hight now. But we can pray for his precious wife, Sis. Tricia and his church. Their burden must seem completely unbearable at the moment. I can only imagine the grief and sorrow. Let us fervently pray that the God of all comfort will rush to them and stand by them in their darkest hours.

If you knew Bro. Joey, you can not help but cry a little today. We cry because of all that we lose with him leaving. If you heard him preach and witnessed his passion for God and God's people, you might also smile a time or two today. We smile because of all the joy he brought to us and the joy he is now embracing first hand. Bro. Joey is experiencing eternal gain.

Thanks for reading today.

Davy

Link to Bro. Joey Hight's Obituary